A replica of my Sanitary Commission Stamp United States Sanitary Commission Shortly after the beginning of the War, the attack on Fort Sumter April, 12, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legislation for the United States Sanitary Commission. The purpose was to work for better field and hospital conditions for the soldiers. A call for quilts or comforts was issued in 1861. The size requested was “8 feet long, 4 feet wide”. America’s ‘industrial war complex’ of the mid 19 the Century…
